Ignácio de Loyola Brandão

With the help of the Happy Heart Marriage Agency, Jose meets his wife Rosa. They seem to have an understanding: Jose isn't bothered by Rosa's dishonesty, extra weight, and fantastically promiscuous past; Rosa isn't too put off by Jose's clubfoot, periodic blackouts, or lack of direction. She simply wants to buy a house. Pragmatic, Jose sets out to get the money necessary to make that possible. In doing so, he manages to become a robber, sniper, and political subversive wanted by the government.

Zero

Durante muitas décadas a poesia A Pátria, de Olavo Bilac, foi lida, decorada e recitada pelas crianças brasileiras. Os versos iniciais diziam: "Ama, com fé e orgulho, a terra em que nasceste!/ Criança! Não verás nenhum país como este!" Não deixa de ser uma ironia cruel encontrar o verso bilaqueano adotado como título (e com seu significado virado pelo avesso) de um dos romances mais devastadores e pessimistas da literatura brasileira, o oposto do róseo otimismo do poeta das estrelas, Não Verás País Nenhum, de Ignácio de Loyola Brandão.
Enquanto gerações de crianças brasileiras recitavam o poema de Bilac, o país (aliás, em sintonia com o mundo) ia acelerando, lentamente, o seu processo de autodestruição, com a devastação das florestas, o acúmulo de lixo, a degradação do meio ambiente, a que se juntou, nos últimos tempos, à destruição da camada de ozônio do planeta, projetando perspectivas sombrias para a humanidade.
Romance apocalíptico, no sentido de contar uma história do fim dos tempos, Não Verás País Nenhum se desenrola em um futuro não determinado, mas cada vez mais presente na realidade do brasileiro. Uma época terrível, na qual a Amazônia se transformou em um deserto sem nenhuma árvore; onde "O lixo forma setenta e sete colinas que ondulam, habitadas, todas. E o sol, violento demais, corrói e apodrece a carne em poucas horas"; onde a carência de água impõe a reciclagem da urina, bebida pelas pessoas. A administração do país chegou ao caos. Governantes medíocres, cada vez mais afastados do povo, interessados apenas em vantagens pessoais, uma polícia corrupta e assustadora.
No meio desse mundo sombrio, uma história de amor, na qual o autor sugere que nem tudo está perdido, pelo menos enquanto o bicho-homem alimentar esperanças e for capaz de gestos de generosidade.

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Não verás país nenhum

Ellen Watson

In future São Paulo, water is scarce, garbage clogs the roads, and every life is now ruled by the sinister and omnipotent System. A classic novel of “dystopia,” looking back to Orwell’s 1984 and forward to Gilliam’s Brazil. Welcome to São Paulo, Brazil, in the not too distant future. Water is scarce, garbage clogs the city, movement is restricted, and the System—sinister, omnipotent, secret—rules its subjects’ every moment and thought. Here, middle-aged Souza lives a meaningless life in a world where the future is doomed and all memory of the past is forbidden. A classic novel of “dystopia,” looking back to Orwell’s 1984 and forward to Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, And Still the Earth stands with Loyola Brandão’s Zero as one of the author’s greatest, and darkest, achievements.

And Still the Earth

Cero

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60 Years

Pinheiro Neto Advogados

Welcome to São Paulo, Brazil, in the not too distant future. Water is scarce, garbage clogs the city, movement is restricted, and the System—sinister, omnipotent, secret—rules its subjects' every moment and thought. Here, middle-aged Souza lives a meaningless life in a world where the future is doomed and all memory of the past is forbidden. A classic novel of "dystopia," looking back to Orwell's 1984 and forward to Terry Gilliam's Brazil, And Still the Earth stands with Loyola Brandão's Zero as one of the author's greatest, and darkest, achievements.

Nelson Vieira

What if a man were so shallow that he couldn't believe his life had meaning unless he was loved and desired by millions of people? What if everything he learned from his television, from the movies, from what he heard on the radio, was treated as an absolute and incontrovertible truth? And what, then, if this man was amoral, cunning, and willing to lie, seduce, and kill to save himself from anonymity? With an army of consultants, a library of "howto" manuals, and an endless variety of product placements at his behest, the hero of "Anonymous Celebrity" sets out to become king of his own little world--which unfortunately turns out to be the same one the rest of us live in. Equal parts Nabokov, "All About Eve," and "Big Brother," this is a bawdy, irreverent indictment of our self-absorbed culture of celebrity, where to be anything less than famous means being something less than human...

Anonymous Celebrity

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Clifford E. Landers

In Arealva, Brazil, a serial killer named the Good-Bye Angel kills one victim per year to cleanse the Earth and after his latest murder, reporter Pedro Quimera sets off a series of events as he attempts to cover the story.

Honest Cheats Play Dirty Games Clean

The Good-bye Angel

A modern-day Don Quixote and an exile in his own hometown, the protagonist of Teeth Under the Sun is kept from writing by a conspiracy (real? imagined?) designed to prevent him from revealing the truth about the town's strange status quo and violent past.In a place where people have abandoned their houses for tiny apartments in the confines of new high-rises, the narrator walks the almost empty streets, remembering better times and meeting figures from his past: his ex-wife, his son, writers, friends, and revolutionaries. And all of this is interspersed with his memories of the movies Fact and fiction, past and present, all meet in this story of the narrator's attempts to engage more fully with a modern world forcing him into isolation.

Ignácio de Loyola Brandão

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